<Ahem> worms, what do they look like?

[totalyfreaky]

DS is incontenant(sp) and cant control his bowel movements, earlier I discovereda soiled pair of pants in the washing basket, and just now at the bottom I have found 2 worm things, 1 alive and one dead, they are about an inch long, light coloured, and have legs, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

c'mon someone must know, I have the 2 specimens here on a paper plarte, and want to get rid.

Worms don't have legs. Not ever. It is sort of a defining characteristic of worms, that they are, in fact, legless. Devoid of legs.

Thread worms are about 1-2 cms long and about a mm wide, but no legs. they look like thick threads. That wiggle. And wave.

thread worms are white and millimetres long, not inches!! They do not have legs. They look like tiny threads.

Dont know about tapeworms...
Might he have ingested these beasties? (My ds ate a spider once)

Eeeew, I wonder what thry are then, the legs are only at the first quarter of thier body, there is no way he has eaten them.

Don't sound like thread worms. Could they have been in the wash basket anyway?

Did you actually find these things on his pants or at the bottom of the washing basket?

Just at the bottom of the wash basket.

Roffles at MB's description of leglessness of worms

silverfish?

or did they not run away?

Sound like silverfish to me.

oh ye gods, I have just made a terrible mistake and googled tapeworm images...

undercooked beefburger anyone?

Don't think it's a tape worm though, you'lll be relieved to hear!

these?

silverfish

worms 'ave no legs, no legs being one of the defining characteristics of wormitude

no not silverfish, the legs are at the bottom, as in, not out to the sides, they are in segments, the worm thing, not the legs.

would DS have pulled the legs off caterpillars?

what colour are they?

Can you take a photo and put it on here?

they are a creamy colour, with darker rings around the segments, and a dark, erm......face

I cant, we have lost the lead to our camera

Have a wee look at this it sounds like it could be a young beetle?

www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/domest.htm

The pics of the young ones are at the bottom!

Ahhh, yes, its the beetle lava, the one at the bottom on the left, thanks for that.